and then the grand slam. they put up five runs. >> matt wieters. >> what a beautiful swing, and two home runs. fastball away. in the ninth inning, a pinch hit to center field. the orioles trail 6-5. >> and the orioles with five straight hits in a row. salazar comes in as a pinch hitter. he picks up a base hit. wigginton comes up and picks up a base hit. salazar again with another base hit up the middle. this tied the score for the orioles. another shot. the orioles just taken apart. the marlins' closer right there never thought they could do that with two outs and nobody on. there you see a shot to left field. jorge cantu with the rbi single off of brian bass to give the marlins the 7-6 victory. >> that is just a heart breaker. jeremy guthrie scoring the tying run. and dave trembley did everything he possibly could to

win this ballgame. >> you throw everything at them but the kitchen sink and that's what dave trembley did. he at least tied this ballgame and gave the club a chance to win. all of the players ready to do a good job. all of the pitchers are anxious to get their pinch hit. guthrie was the only one with hill. if the orioles hadn't made that one base-running mistake, they had a chance of winning this ballgame on that fly ball to left field, possibly scoring a run with a sacrafice fly. >> and koji uehara pitched a pretty good game until he was taken out there. >> he did. he has been struggling to get deep in ballgames. you can see him laboring through the hot water. -- weather. he is just not used that youd to that now. a pretty good job on the part of koji to get the ball club deep in that game. >> again, the orioles lose to the florida marlins 7-6 in the first of three in florida. and let's go back down to south florida to jim hunter and buck

martinez. >> thank you very much. really an exciting game, especially when the orioles fell he behind 6-1. chris ray returned to the emand he immediately got into a very close game and gave the orioles an opportunity to get back in it. >> and dave trembley did a nice job of bringing him into kind of a non-pressurized situation when he came into the ballgame because the club was down. but chris ray atoteally different caliber of pitches when we saw him tonight than when he last pitched for the orioles. he was down in the zone. very effective throughout his inning and 2/3 and he allowed just one base runner. the one thing i really liked was the location of his fastball and the fact that he got the breaking ball down in the zone. he had one strikeout through just 18 pitches in an inning and 2/3. obviously the assignment to the minor leagues really paid big dividends for chris ray. he really straightened himself out. it is good to see him throwing well again. >> it was really an indifferent night for the orioles' bullpen because danys baez had a tough

night. he only got one out and allowed five runs. after ray, jim johnson came on and had two scoreless innings and the guys in the back end of that bullpen, johnson in flair, he has been very dependable all year. >> he sure has, jim. and i think one thing is the comradey and they pick up one another that's what they did tonight for danys baez. baez has been so good, and he had a couple tough spots the last couple of times up. he gave up the three-run home run to ryan howard on saturday night and give autopsy grand slam, but his relieving pals in the bullpen picked him up and kept it a scoreless game into the bottom of the 12th inning. >> when brian bass walked the lead-off man in particular afast runner, bonifacio, you're asking for trouble. all you have to do is get the run and the game end ins the bottom of the inning. and luke scott made a strong throw to the plate and gregg zaun did the only thick a catcher can do in that situation, hope you come up with it and tag the base runner all in one motion. unfortunately he couldn't get the ball in there.

luke plaid a strong throw, but the lead-off walk and the wild pitch proved costly. >> the orioles battle back and this team has been resilient on the year. you better get the 27 outs. we're going to welcome in the manager dave trembley. a disappointing loss, but what a battle your team made. you have to be really proud of the effort. two outs and nobody on in the ninth inning and somehow they manage to score three runs and tie it. >> we got some big hits off the bench. we got obviously some big two- out hits and, like you said, we played all 27 outs for the first inning innings there and had a chance and extra innings it didn't lap for us. but we played hard and we gave ourselves a chance. that's all you can ask for. [ dave, you're seeing some young guys grow here in front of your eyes, matt wieters with a couple of big swings. how about oscar salazar, this guy seems to hit no matter what the situation is. >> he has an idea of how to use the whole field and he has

confidence. the other guys have confidence when they go up there. i think that is a real big thing on both sides. he has really made some big contributions for us. >> i know how quickly things come at you as a manager. you used the entire play book tonight using jeremy guthrie and doing whatever you could, even rich hill. he had a pretty decent at-bat. unfortunately ty wigginton misread the play and that was a big out. >> yeah, it was. and obviously it didn't come at the right time. we wish we could do it over again. we can't. you have to move on. >> dave, after one hit through seven innings when andrew miller left, the bats seemed to really come back and that is something to look forward to tomorrow as the orioles got back in this game and able to tie it against the closer. even though you came up a run short, it was a pretty good battle all the way. >> you know, we worked the count better. he was real tough in the game, miller pitched very, very well. it was a different game once we got into their bullpen.

>> dei, we appreciate the visit. >> why you're welcome. >> dave really managed a great game tonight because he used everybody on the bench a pitcher to pinch run, a pitcher to pinch hit. he did everything he could to try to get his team a win and they simply came up a run short. >> and you're down we three runs, you say, okay, what can i do now? you keep sending the pinch hitters and you keep thinking, out of the box jeremy guthrie scored the tying run in the bottom of the ninth inning and sending rich hill up there was good. in philadelphia on friday night he had a base hit and an rbi and he almost picked up another one here tonight. >> two outs and nobody out and in the top of the ninth and you're down by three with the other team's closer on the mound, you don't think there is any shot you have a chance. the orioles battle back and tie it and come up short and lose in extras. >> our thanks to jim and buck. the orioles are you 3-2 in extra inning ball games so far for this season. time to take a look at the at&t player of the game and it turns

out the to be matt wieters who came through with a already and rbi single. hanley ramirez finishes second with 13% and andrew miller who held the orioles to just one hit, 7% of the vote. that is a look at our a. the 57b. the player of the game. 12 innings, 7-6 loss to the florida marlins, that's when we continue here on masn. commute.

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>> wieters auto high fly ball to left field and coghlan and that ball is gone. matt wieters is going the opposite way. there's a second big league home run and the orioles are trying to chip back here in the eighth. >> matt wieters with a pretty good time over the last 10 games. 13 hits in 37 trip0s the plate. he has hit .351 during that period acouple of home runs, six rbi's, six runs scored and three doubles. when you look back at wieters, it looks like he has finally gotten into a groove.

>> it is safe to say that swing has shortened up like to when he was in the minors. at first his swing got real long and as of now he is showing a lot of confidence with his swing. it is very short. it is very quick. he's going with the pitch, and he's going with the pitch from power. second home run on his career. both of them are opposite. that one tonight got out of the ballpark and a bullet. a shot. again, he showed you just what he is capable of doing a good fastball down and in. he still gets the head of the bat on it. he drives it by the first baseman. two hits for matt wieters on the night and, boy, he is providing a lot of offense in the bottom third of that lineup now. >> and comebacks, we're going to go back to last thursday against the new york mets and pick up some of the defining moments for the orioles over the past week. aubrey huff with a game-winning single. >> bases loaded. the orioles are down to their

last out. aubrey huff comes through with a shot. no chance of getting a runner, and they come back to win. >> an saturday night, they were down to their last strike when brian roberts hit as two-run homer. >> his seventh home run of the season atwo-run shot and gives the orioles a one-run lead and the orioles come back again. >> tonight the orioles are down to their last out. salazar's rbi single. >> and oscar salazar, another shot, and he ties the ball game for the o's and at least gives them a chance to come back to win. >> the o's go to the 12th and end up losing the game. there was kind of a bad base running blunder and we're going to show you that with ty wigginton who basically came through with a big hit and he is thrown out at second. >> this is always the case for the orioles. one little base running mistake in the rally and that usually ends up costing them an out they need a lot. of course, it is being aggressive but you have to be aggressive smart if you're going to win in this division

against the yankees and the boston red sox. you cannot make mistakes. a mig mistake on the part of wigginton who is really swinging a hot bat. the play is right in front of him. you heard jim hunter say you cannot make that mistake. stay there at first base. the next fly ball scores the sacrafice fly and the orioles could have won it right there. sfwloo you hear the term in baseball agood base runner, knowledgeable base runner. >> what is the difference? >> well, you don't take chances like that. if he was a speed demon like brian robertss, sure you take your chances there. but you can't overevaluate your own speed or your own talent. you have to stay within your own ability there. wigginton, even if it is a 50- 50 shot at gets to second base, you cannot take that chance of getting thrown out in that situation with what runner at third base and less than two outs. >> the orioles' pitching was very good for almost every inning in this ballgame, but koji uehara pitched six strong innings, and at one point he only gave up seven base hits

and gave up one run. >> he had the bases loaded tonight and he really pitched out of some trouble all night long. you see him still making good, quality pitches, and that's what i really like to see. i happen to think his fastball and his split-finger fastball are really two of the best back- to-back pitches we have on the staff there. he is a strike thrower aguy who will challenge a hitter at any time. but as long as he's got that split-finger, he is capable of getting any hitter in baseball out. >> while we look at the stats, six innings, seven hits and just the one earned run, it appeared the heat may have played a part, a toll, do you think? >> i don't think so is. i think the last year or two he has been pitching in japan as a relief pitcher, it is very -- it is really hard to build that endurance level back up to get deep in ballgames. plus he is pitching in a league, i think, that is a heck of a lot tougher than the league he came from. there are big guys out there that can hit the ball a long

way, the d.h., that sort of thing. i think he is just struggling to get to that sixth and seventh inning with the kind of strength he had when he was a starter. >> there is no doubt that hanley ramirez who hit his 10th home run this season in a grand slam to take the florida marlins to an earlier 6-1 advantage in this game, that when you look back at ramirez, is he one of the top ten players in the game? >> i would have to say so. one thing you notice is how quick his bat is. look at this pitch up and away and he gets out in important of it and pulls it to short. he got the same pitch four times tonight. watch the location again. the same location. good pitch to lit, off the end of the bat. that is really lard. give him credit for changing speeds well, uehara. later on in ballgames, this is the one on the outside corner. look at how quick his bat is, he gets the ball down in corner for a double in that third at- bat. later on bases are loaded. he comes up and gets the same pitch again. he hits that ball nine miles left center field, a long way

abig shot, grand slam. the guy is is a real talented hitter. >> no doubt about that hanley ramirez now with 10 home runs for the season, his second career grand slam. we're going to take a look at some of the oriole run leaders now. brian roberts has scored 52 to top the team, jones with 47 followed by particular cake is with 44, luke scott at 31 and huff at 28. those are the top five oriole run leaders for the season. when we come back, we'll take an inside look at chris tillman who is pitching at norfolk. he may be headed to baltimore sometime later there season. -- this season.

>> chris tillman pitched six innings abdid not walk a batter and struck out three tonight for the norfolk tide. the tide, of course, the triple- a farm team of the orioles. that's where tillman is pitching and pawtucket was leading tide 4-3 when we last heard the score. tillman now, 5-4 for the season. a 2.59 earned run average.

66 innings. less hits than innings pitched. 59. he has 18 walks and 70 strikeouts, and, of course, he was acquire immediate the trade. day hillman will be in the starting rotation. obviously no later than next year. tom davis and rick dempsey welcome you back here to our masn studios after the orioles lost in 12 to the florida marlins. rick, you have this blog on masn sports. some fans think -- >> here we go. >> some fans actually think you wrote on the blog that you're -- you have the impress to trade brian roberts. >> you have to go on masnsports.com to see exactly what was said out there. i never did say that you should trade brian roberts. i only pointed out his value to a ball club at a time like this in his career. yes, he is over 30 years old, the nucleus of this ball club is 23, 24 years old right now. he may have missed his window with this ball club. nobody knows right here. it may be poising itself to be

in the pennant race or the world series in the next two or three years. brian report could be out of his prime at that time. nobody really knows. brian roberts' value to the ball club might be like what ken griffey jr. was to the seattle mariners or randy jones to the seattle mayoriers. let's go alex rodriguez from the mayoriers. they tray traded those guys away and immediately played in the playoff situation with an opportunity to go to the world series, playoffs. >> the text x rangers trade alex rodriguez. and he goes to tyankees and they go to the playoffs. that is his drawing pow tore the ball club now. i'm not saying trade brian roberts at all. i don 't want to see him go. i love watching him play. he is one of my favorite players. but if somebody comes through with a blockbuster deal that would put the orioles in pennant contention immediately, i would say make the deal. it is all about winning. it is not about one player at all. it is not about eddie murray or cal ripken or guys that were

all part of the nucleus of our ball club back then. it is about the team winning and making the kind of deals it took hank peters took to bring the winners back here to the orioles. that's the only thing i look for. i don't want to see brian roberts go for nothing. in order to get brian roberts, to trade him somewhere else, we have to almost guarantee ourselves a win. [ you can read all about it on masn sports.com. we're going to take a look at some of the red sox-washington nationals highlights. 2-1 boston. brad penny throws a wild pitch allowing ryan zimmerman to score. 2-2. kevin youkilis will come through with an rbi single to left field. dustin pedroia will score. the red sox kind of coasted in this game after that. the boston red sox playing the nationals in washington as we check the scoreboard here. the boston red sox winning 11-3 tonight with the red sox and jason bay hitting a sew lore home run. atlanta shut out the yankees 4-

0. garrett anderson a two-run double. scott rolen, a home run and the phillies beat tampa bay 10-1. phillies with a six-run first, four-run fourth. chase utley with a two-run double. that's a look at our interleague scoreboard. when we come back, we'll preview tomorrow night's game in florida with jason were kin on the mound that is the story after the orioles lose to florida 7-6.

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the i.r.s. take on the nationals friday evening at 7:00 and also on saturday evening at 7:00. pre-game coverage starting at 6:30 and then it concludes sunday afternoon at is:30. the orioles play the marlins. our coverage begins at 6:30. and also thursday evening, the same kind of coverage, all on masn two there. friday, they have fireworks after the game on a friday and then saturday night you can watch "field of dreams" on the big screen on baltimore's camden yards after the orioles play the nationals. we'll be here with the pre-game coverage starting a half hour before the orioles take on the nationals. let's go back down to florida where amber theoharis is standing by now with gregg zaun. >> you had speed on the base paths and just take me through that last play. >> well, you know, he had a

good hop out there, and i think it is an above average throw by luke. a little bit of a short hop and a tough play and it is not one that i haven't made dozens of times in my career before. it took a funny squirt to the right and i didn't catch it in a good part of the mitt. it is a play that i should have made and, you know, it was a good enough throw by luke to get limb at the plate. if i catch the ball cleanly, we have all kinds of time to make the tag. it was kind of those in betweeners where i have to make the decision. do i beat him to the plate or do i try to pick it clean and make the play right there? and i tried to pick it and i didn't get a good clean, crisp bounce and it kind of squirted on me and i just boxed it. i should have made the play. >> it is a game of inches and sometimes it comes down to that. the orioles hosting the florida marlins 7-6. we're going to go right back down to florida where amber theo hair sis standing by with luke scott. take me through the game emotionally. >> i think it is a positive. you look at the character of this team. we're down four runs going into the ninth inning against a tough closer throwing 100 miles per hour and we're able to put up some good at-bats, and we fought back and tied the game, brought it to extra innings, and we went back and forth for

a while. but i think what we need to take from this is a positive. we -- and we fought hard and so did they. give them credit because their bullpen did a good job holding us to where we were. and, you know, they hit the ball, you know, when they needed to and they got the right guy on. and, you know, they did a good job. >> luke scott is there and the series continues tomorrow. jason berken pitching against ricky know has co- >> he'll be back on the mound for the o's looking for his second win of the season. he has struggled but he is really starting to pitch better. at the same time ricky nolasco has struggled his whole season areal bad start. as of june he's had three very good starts already. he is trying to win his fourth game of the season. it is going to be a battle out there again b's, and the orioles never get anything easy. >> nolasco's earned run average, 7.15. the orioles lose to the

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